Stupid Sayings

Azari

People who preface some factoid with: "I hate to burst your bubble/rain on your parade/shatter your illusions but".

You just know the bastards are loving it.

Dave_C_2

To quote Terry Pratchett from "The Truth"

"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!"

Dave

girl-in-a-hat

There's a good possibility that I'm being dense but I've never understood 'cheap at half the price'...

Oh, and my Mum uses 'I'm not being nasty' before saying something well, nasty.

Derivative

Azari wrote: »

"It's not rocket science".

There is nothing special about rocket science. In all branches of science mankind has advanced to achieve the best of which it is capable.

Also, there isn't really any such thing as 'rocket science'. It's an amalgam of many different disciplines.

I like this one despite the fact it makes no sense.
Mainly because I study Physics, so at a stretch I can call myself a rocket scientist.

wary

Here's one that confused me as a kid ...
"Waste not, want not" ... so if you don't waste it then you won't want it, in which case you might just as well waste it then ... that was my interpretation of it at least

Azari

girl-in-a-hat wrote: »

There's a good possibility that I'm being dense but I've never understood 'cheap at half the price'...

It's a vaguely clever expression in that if you're not paying attention it might seem to be saying something is cheap whereas, in reality, what is being said is that it would be cheap if it only cost half of what it does cost. Thus you aren't really saying anything because, whether cheap or expensive, it's still likely to be cheap if you only had to pay half as much. (I suppose, to be pedantic, you are saying it costs, at most, a little less than twice what it should cost.)

wary wrote: »

Here's one that confused me as a kid ...
"Waste not, want not" ... so if you don't waste it then you won't want it, in which case you might just as well waste it then ... that was my interpretation of it at least

The word 'want' is being used in the sense of 'lack' or 'need'. Such a sense is somewhat archaic, now. You may remember a certain government minister trying to weasel out of some problem he had got himself into by claiming he was using the word in this sense.

Thus, if you don't waste it you will not wont for it.

lincroft1710

Dave_C wrote: »

"There are two types of people in the world."

"Those with loaded guns and those who dig!"

BJV

nlj1520 wrote: »

My glass is half empty...........yippee......space for vodka!:beer:

Got to say big thank you to you all.

Have had a B**** of a day and your comments esp this one has really cheered me up. Well enough to drop the kids of at Beavers.

P.s the saying that always gets me it never rains it pours! Well yes it is wet!

or as someone has just shouted down the office Mmmm " To be Honest" because you just know they are going to lie! ha ha